LHC Beam Gas Vertexing monitor

The Beam Gas Vertexing monitor (BGV) is being developed by a collaboration including the CERN BE and PH departments, EPFL and RWHT-Aachen.

The aim is to develop a beam profile monitor based on the reconstruction of the vertexes of beam gas interactions. The spatial distribution of these vertexes can be used to derive the distribution of the beam particles and thus the beam profiles. By using the optics parameters of the LHC the beam emittance can finally be estimated.